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Tuesday
Attending a UN Meeting – Felix
Dodds session 5
The Bureau
The members of the CSD
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Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia,, Austria, Belarus,
Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon,
Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic,
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic
of the Congo, Djibouti, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany,
Ghana, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Israel, Italy,
Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Mexico, Pakistan,
Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation,
Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone,
Spain, Sudan, Thailand, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, Tunisia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, United Republic of Tanzania, United States
of America, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Side events?
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The proposed side event should be directly related to
the goals and objectives of the Commission on
Sustainable Development and should reflect an
approach to sustainable development that integrates its
economic, social and environmental dimensions.
Every effort should be made to align the proposed
event with the main thrust of the agenda of the 15th
Session of the Commission on Sustainable
Development.
Preference will be
given to events that are organized jointly by nongovernmental, governmental, and
inter-governmental partners.
What is this partnership stuff?
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The CSD Partnerships Fair provides a venue for registered
Partnerships for Sustainable Development to showcase progress,
launch new partnerships, network with existing and potential
partners, create synergies between partnerships and learn from
each other's experiences. The Partnerships Fair gives CSD
participants an opportunity to gather information on and discuss
the important contribution of these innovative initiatives towards
supporting the implementation of inter-governmentally agreed
sustainable development goals and objectives.
The Partnerships Fair is an official part of the CSD and a
summary of its activities will be included in the Report of CSD15. A detailed account of the Partnerships Fair Activities will also
be available on-line through our newest publication the “CSD 15
Partnerships Overview: a summary of Partnerships Fair
Activities”
Partnerships
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In particular, partnerships working in the areas
of the CSD-14/15 thematic cluster - energy for
sustainable development; industrial
development; air pollution/atmosphere; and
climate change are encouraged to participate.
Learning Centre
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The Learning Centre which constitutes a series of 3-hour courses focused on
the specific themes of the session, as well as on cross-cutting issues.
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The CSD-15 themes are: energy for sustainable development, air pollution
atmosphere, climate change and industrial development. Courses related to the
CSD cross-cutting issues will also be held. In the past, such courses have
focused on financing, education, national sustainable development strategies,
gender and sustainable development law.
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The Learning Centre is intended to at facilitate teaching/training at a practical
level on various aspects of sustainable development. Courses are designed to
impart useful practical knowledge to enable CSD participants to implement
Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and the Mauritius
Strategy for Small Island Developing States in their home countries.
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Courses are held in parallel to the CSD plenary sessions with the exception of
the Opening session and the three days of the high-level segment. Instructors
are usually experts from universities and organizations with hands-on expertise.
What not to do
Do not go up to a government when they are
speaking
Do not sit in a government seat –
unless you are on that government’s delegation
Do not interrupt the meeting
Do not target a government in your intervention
Do not wear inappropriate clothes
Who is able to speak
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Getting access to the floor as an NGO (working
through NGO or stakeholder groupings)
It might be possible to take the floor as an
individual accredited organisation on some
occasions
Have 200 copies of your intervention – give
copies to the UN staff for the interpreters and
to distribute
Short and to the point
What are brackets and how to
understand UN language
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Alternative brackets
Contentious brackets
Suspicious brackets
Tactical or trading brackets
Uncertain brackets
Waiting brackets
Weary brackets
Brackets
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Who put the bracket in?
When you know who put it forward, ask why.
The ‘why’ may not be clear to other delegations and
you can play an important role in highlighting the
‘why’ in your lobbying.
Depending upon the answer to ‘why ’, there may be
different actions. These might include:
Strength of terms
Term
definition
Calls for Asking
governments
to do
something
Just the term Does it say who Does it have
- no action
should do it?
timelines?
identified
Does it have
a monitoring
mechanism?
Some rooms